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More rabbit holes?
TayoChan
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So hear me out but I kinda want more rabbit holes in the game.
I know most of the time rabbit holes suck when you want to see what your sim is up to especially when you are playing with a single sim. But sometimes when I have multiple sims and I don't know what to do with one sim while I focus on another I really just want them to go away for a while but not necessarily have a job to go to.
So what I want is a rabbit hole system where I can send a sim away for various lengths of time on my own accord sort of like the volunteer option.
Some options would be like: Go to the movies, go shopping, run errands, go watch performance (e.g. concert, play, stand-up or sporting event), go play sport (e.g. golf, softball, baseball, basketball) etc.
For an example of what I would like to see, currently in my game I have a family consisting of a woman and her girlfriend/future wife the girlfriends daughter and her disgruntled, disapproving, retiree parents. I can send the daughter to school and after school extracurriculars, the girlfriend to work, the main woman however, works from home and is my main story point of view, but the parents sometimes I don't know what to do with and I don't always want them around.
Having the self triggered rabbit holes I could send them out of the house. Like the father to play golf or the mother to go shopping or visit friends. I know that there is the volunteer activities from Parenthood and the random outing invitations from City Living but the volunteer options don't really fit some sims personalities like mean sims, and the City Livings invites are just that, invites, so you have to hope one randomly pops up which really isn't helpful. There could also be a "send to lot" options which allows you to send a sim to an in game lot but not follow them.
The options can be of various lengths of time or continues until manually ended, provide buffs, maybe offer chance cards or even some light skill building.
These options would be great for players who like playing with a lot of sims or for players who, like me, play with free will turned off. Too many times I get focused on one sim and the others who don't have something to do are left forgotten to just stand around and do nothing and there are not enough idle, non-skill building task to set them to. But I have already discussed that in a old thread.
Does anyone else find this idea interesting, what other options would you like to see
I know most of the time rabbit holes suck when you want to see what your sim is up to especially when you are playing with a single sim. But sometimes when I have multiple sims and I don't know what to do with one sim while I focus on another I really just want them to go away for a while but not necessarily have a job to go to.
So what I want is a rabbit hole system where I can send a sim away for various lengths of time on my own accord sort of like the volunteer option.
Some options would be like: Go to the movies, go shopping, run errands, go watch performance (e.g. concert, play, stand-up or sporting event), go play sport (e.g. golf, softball, baseball, basketball) etc.
For an example of what I would like to see, currently in my game I have a family consisting of a woman and her girlfriend/future wife the girlfriends daughter and her disgruntled, disapproving, retiree parents. I can send the daughter to school and after school extracurriculars, the girlfriend to work, the main woman however, works from home and is my main story point of view, but the parents sometimes I don't know what to do with and I don't always want them around.
Having the self triggered rabbit holes I could send them out of the house. Like the father to play golf or the mother to go shopping or visit friends. I know that there is the volunteer activities from Parenthood and the random outing invitations from City Living but the volunteer options don't really fit some sims personalities like mean sims, and the City Livings invites are just that, invites, so you have to hope one randomly pops up which really isn't helpful. There could also be a "send to lot" options which allows you to send a sim to an in game lot but not follow them.
The options can be of various lengths of time or continues until manually ended, provide buffs, maybe offer chance cards or even some light skill building.
These options would be great for players who like playing with a lot of sims or for players who, like me, play with free will turned off. Too many times I get focused on one sim and the others who don't have something to do are left forgotten to just stand around and do nothing and there are not enough idle, non-skill building task to set them to. But I have already discussed that in a old thread.
Does anyone else find this idea interesting, what other options would you like to see
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I use it and love it. It works great, but like pretty much every mod, it breaks every now and then because of patches.
I also like wandering the hills.
Same here. The point of the loading screens it to eliminate the rabbit holes not increase them. If you can't handle too many sims in your household move someone out and play rotational, or just don't have many kids.
It would be like the volunteer interactions from Parenthood where you go to your phone or computer and select a menu then select which ever activity you want to send your sim to
For example "Go To: golf coarse",
How long like 1 hour, 3 hour, 5 hour, etc or even until you manually tell them to come home.
Who is going along with them if you want to get rid of more then one sim for a while.
Confirm and your sim is out of your hair for a while without having to move them out of the household and disrupt the story your trying to tell.
Someone who doesn't like rabbit holes can completely ignore that the interaction is even there.
My problem isn't whether it's optional or not. It's that I'd rather see the golf court and be able to play in it. Having it as a rabbit hole....it just doesn't make any sense. Again, if you want a sim out of your hair, because you feel like there's too many in your household, just move the sim out to another house/lot. Or leave him at home while you are travelling some other place.
Exactly, yes. Sometimes one specific sim needs more attention than the rest of their household, and it's handy to have somewhere to send the others.
Problem is I don't want them out of my household since they are there for a very specific story telling reason, but I don't need them there every minute of every day where I have to always micromanage them. If everything was a physical lot I would have to travel with them forcing me into loading screens I don't want and it would take me away from my other sims when they may be my primary focus.
Especially since with those rabit holes, they coudl increase skill level, aka give your other sims a chance to develop their skills, while you focus on a sim who needs more attention, without having to keep them on the same lot.
Why should players be limited to only your way of playing?
lol
This...
"If you can't handle too many sims in your household move someone out and play rotational, or just don't have many kids."
...because you don't think others should have an option/balance that makes how they prefer to play easier for them.
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